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How Managers (unintentionally) Roadblock an Empowered Team

Let's Grow Leaders

The shortest way to answer this question is to ask, “Is this meeting for the team/employee’s benefit or for mine?” Take the time to check for understanding, schedule the finish, and describe in detail what a successful outcome looks like or will accomplish (and if you don’t know yet what success looks like, be upfront about that.

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Should I Quit This Workplace Conflict? How to Know When It’s Time to Leave

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re reading this article, you’re clearly interested in finding solutions. Is there an alternative path to accomplish my goal? Or as an old friend of mine, Bill, is fond of saying “Never waste a good ‘mad’.” Do I feel good about how I’m showing up? that might be a sign it’s time to stop engaging. What would you add?

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Career Success A to Z: M is for Mindset

Eat Your Career

It looks for ways to confirm what you believe—it seeks solutions in the face of challenge. It had been a goal of mine for a while and, as is often the case , I experienced a mild sense of discontentment immediately after achieving what I’d long been dreaming of. Your clever mind again kicks in. A Personal Note….

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Mistakes New Managers Make with Author and Coach, Dr. Janet Polach, PhD

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That was absolutely mine, but what inspired you to write your book? And what are we expected to accomplish? What are we really expected to accomplish? What do we have the capacity to accomplish and how are we gonna get it done? What can we do? What’s the way to even make people listen. Probably emotional intelligence.

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How to Confront Your To-Do List to Transform Your Life with Executive Coach and Author, Mark J. Silverman

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Friends of mine and coaches would say they give it to their CEO clients. And I like the, you know, the thinking about the book, because so many people come into, you know, a coach where they’re like, I want the solution. I want the solution to fix this chaos or this stress or this. I think it was 1500 copies.

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Building Your Career the Hard Way with CEO and Author, Steven L. Blue

Crestcom

Jenn DeWall: Hey, congratulations on that accomplishment too. I was a high performance person and it had to be mine, and it went to somebody else. But I think you also provided the solution within that, you know, of to avoid the individuals like that, that are the office jerks. And for those listening, we can do it.

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An Interview with Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade

Lateral Action

Mine the broader culture that surrounds your passion. Swap TV and Facebook time for renegade quest time an hour a day and you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish. Do NOT accept someone else's limitations as your own without first doing everything possible to succeed on your own terms. Passive screen time is useless time.

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